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Diana Paulette Wallis (born 28 June 1954 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) was a British Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Wallis was first elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and in 2009. She resigned her seat in January 2012.
Political career
Wallis was elected Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament 2000–2004 and then following the resignation of Chris Davies MEP she was re-elected Leader in 2006 a post she held till January 2007. She then became the first British female of any political persuasion in twenty years to be elected to the post of Vice President of the European Parliament, as well as being the first British Liberal Democrat to do so.
Until Spring 2007, she was Chairwoman of the ...

The husband of a Yorkshire and Humber MEP has decided not to take her seat when she steps down next month.
A row when it was announced that, as second on the Liberal Democrat list of candidates at the last European elections, Stewart Arnold could take the seat vacated by Diana Wallis.
On Friday, Mr Arnold said he had decided not to take up the post.
Ms Wallis resigned owing to the illness and Mr Arnold said he wanted to concentrate on supporting his wife.
The seat has instead been offered to 36-year-old Rebecca Taylor.
When it was announced Mr Arnold could take over, fellow ...

ALDE leader opposes bid by Diana Wallis but Wallis says she will continue ‘until the end'.
Is Diana Wallis going to see through her candidacy for the presidency of the European Parliament? Or is she about to be bought off by the promise of a vice-presidency?
Those are the questions being turned over repeatedly in the corridors and committee rooms of Brussels and Strasbourg.
In theory, there are three declared candidates for the presidency of the Parliament at the election of 17 January. Martin Schulz, the leader of the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D), is the ...

British Liberal MEP Diana Wallis has announced she will stand for the presidency of the European Parliament as an independent candidate, in a bid to derail the deal struck behind closed doors by the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) to replace Jerzy Buzek at the end of his term in January.
"I feel that there is a growing sense that whilst we talk much about democracy we seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the most important of our own internal elections,” Wallis said, adding that democratic ...